For the remainder of the semester, you are going to analyze a medical study.
Choose something that you are interested in studying, which in your job as a nurse, affects the quality of patient care. This is called a nursing intervention. Find one scholarly research article which relates to your topic. This research should be a clinical study, not a survey of existing research, and must be a quantitative study. For example, if you are interested in studying the effect singing has on anxiety in hospitalized children, you will find research that has collected quantitative data.
You cannot choose a study that simply observes something without making a connection between an independent and dependent variable. Your study needs to be one of these two types
Analytical and observational: This is a study where a researcher wants to see how one thing affects another. An example is a researcher who wants to know if smoking affects bone loss. It is based on studying data that was collected from what is already known.
Interventional: This is a study that performs some sort of treatment, to compare it to another group. These are commonly called clinical trials. An example is a researcher who wants to see if subjects taking a new medication have a better reduction in symptoms than with previous treatments.
You do not need to do any analysis of the study. Turn in detailed responses to the following questions:
Summarize your chosen topic and how it affects your role in patient care. This does not have to be existing research, just something you are interested in.
Define the independent variable and the dependent variable for your topic.
The link to a study relating to your topic, providing a proper APA citation. This must be existing scholarly research but does not have to be identical to your topic. Newspapers, websites such as Wikipedia or Investopedia, blogs, and other non-peer-reviewed sources are not scholarly. Scholarly means it’s written by experts and has been reviewed by other experts in the field. Explain how you know this is a scholarly article.
Summarize the chosen research article and state how it relates to your chosen topic. In a Word document, turn in these questions with your responses numbered and written in detail. Failure to do so may reduce your score.
